December 28, 2016|Contributed by: Claudia Hurtado-Myers
On June 24, 2014, in response to the increasing number of children and families fleeing Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to seek protection at the U.S. border, the Obama Administration announced plans to significantly increase capacity to detain children with their parents. In testimony before Congress, Secretary Johnson proposed “an aggressive deterrence strategy,” including the […]
December 20, 2016|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
Last month, Donald Trump was elected to be the next president of the United States. I wrote in this blog that it is very likely that Mr. Trump will end the DACA program during his presidency. On December 9, Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham introduced a bi-partisan bill in the Senate that would preserve […]
December 19, 2016|Contributed by: Courtney Sommer
Fourteen U.S. mayors, including Denver’s mayor Michael B. Hancock, have signed a letter sent to President-Elect Donald Trump asking his administration to continue accepting and adjudicating initial applications and renewals for DACA recipients until Congress can implement immigration reform. President-elect Donald Trump has previously promised to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, […]
November 22, 2016|Contributed by: Claudia Hurtado-Myers
Since the election our office, along with many other immigration attorneys, has received a surge of calls from clients and prospective clients. Their main question is, “What will happen to the immigration laws under President Trump?” Candidate Donald Trump made lots of promises. The most popular are: Begin working on an impenetrable physical wall on […]
November 21, 2016|Contributed by: Courtney E. Butler, Esq.
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to deport or imprison up to three million undocumented immigrants after he is inaugurated on January 20, 2017. He plans to use state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies to do so. However, several police departments in cities throughout the United States – including Denver – have refused to participate […]
November 11, 2016|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
During the campaign, Mr. Trump has said some very worrisome things about what he intends to do to immigrants. But he has also said a variety of totally inconsistent and sometimes impossible things. Here is a list of his 10 point immigration “plan”: Build the wall End “catch and release.” Create a deportation task force […]
November 9, 2016|Contributed by: Aaron C. Hall, Esq.
I am completely stunned to be typing this, but Donald Trump has just been elected President of the United States. Mr. Trump built much of his campaign around the promises of intensified immigration enforcement. Mr. Trump has promised that he will handle what he sees as the evils of immigration by building a wall on […]
October 25, 2016|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
After the Attorney General’s 2015 decision (“Silva-Trevino 2”), that vacated the 2008 precedent decision in Matter of Silva-Trevino (“Silva-Trevino 1”), the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) just developed an important uniform standard that has wide applicability to immigration and criminal law. The case was remanded to the BIA to determine whether a particular criminal offense […]
October 24, 2016|Contributed by: Aaron C. Hall, Esq.
On December 23, 2016, the new fee schedule for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) application and petition filing fees will go into effect. Family-based petitions, employment-based petitions, and naturalization applications will all be affected. For example, the I-130 Petition for an Alien Relative will go up from $420 to $535. The I-129 Petition for […]
October 18, 2016|Contributed by: Courtney E. Butler, Esq.
In an election season fraught with claims of building a wall along the Mexican border and making Mexico pay for it, the importance of an effective border security plan that serves national security concerns but also ensures due process rights for all becomes even more apparent. The truth about border security and detention is not […]
